“A Saucy Tattoo and A Condom Do Not A Revolution Make”
Helen Gurley Brown was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for thirty-two years and authored the bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl. She is now the subject of the biography…
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Elizabeth Wurtzel on the Mental Instability of the Founding Fathers
In “The Pop Culture Clause,” Elizabeth Wurtzel’s essay in the new issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Wurtzel asserts that American culture has produced Elvis, blue jeans…
Old Man Bar—A Special Memorial Day Essay
I sat there with an 8 ounce beer glass in the semi-dark in a long room cluttered with those often set apart from the herd, either because of their alcoholism—which…
Dick Cheney or Sith Lord?
Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff calls the former VP a “Sith Lord” and then takes him to the mat:
Turns Out Jeffrey Goldberg is Funny!
On the cover of this month’s Atlantic: “Why I Fired My Broker,” a meandering and highly entertaining personal essay that concludes that the brokers don’t know anything anyhow and if…
Politics, Art, and “Paradox”
“Vision of art.” “King for a day.” “Looking for that last big idea.” These are just a few of the smashed together words and phrases that make up John Wilkes…
The Plans to Rebuild Civilization are Set in Stone and Waiting in Georgia
Econopocalypse. Swine flu. Arlen Specter becoming a Democrat. Ladies and gentlemen, it is only a matter of time before every 12 out of 13 of us are dead … and…
Total Torture Tutorial
Mixing up your OLC memos? Can’t keep your enhanced interrogations straight? Foreign Policy, which not too long ago implemented a generally improved web redesign, has this very useful (and terrifying)…
Another Bust for the Bush War
According to the New York Times, Americans posing as contractors allegedly stole $40 million in Iraqi fuel and sold it on the black market. “The operation described in the indictment…
Florida’s Torture Chamber for Delinquent Boys
For 109 years, Florida has sent bad boys to the Florida School for Boys–for things like rape and assault, yes, but also for petty infractions like truancy or smoking in…
The Rumpus Interview with Sam Green
“When you think of the 60s, you generally think of nice smiling hippies, long hair, tie-dye, peace signs. These Weatherpeople were definitely not that. These Weatherpeople looked really HARD. It…